GRASS GIS 6.4.3

Release

• Release date: XX May 2013
• Source code: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/grass-6.4.3.tar.gz (​md5sum)
• Binaries: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/download/

SVN Source Code

• Milestone: 6.4.3
• Browse Source: ​http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/tags/release_20130727_grass_6_4_3
• SVN Checkout 6.4.3:

    svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_20130727_grass_6_4_3
  

• SVN Checkout latest 6.4 release branch (including yet unreleased subsequent bugfixes and improvements):

    svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_6_4
  

Overview of changes

Over 830 new features and bug-fixes have been applied since 6.4.2.

Full details of all changes can be viewed in the ​ChangeLog since 6.4.2.

See also see also GRASS 6.4.3RC1, GRASS 6.4.3RC2, GRASS 6.4.3RC3 and GRASS 6.4.3RC4 release notes.

New modules

• i.landsat.acca - Performs Landsat TM/ETM+ Automatic Cloud Cover Assessment (ACCA).
• i.landsat.toar - Calculates top-of-atmosphere radiance or reflectance and temperature for Landsat MSS/TM/ETM+.
• i.modis.qc - Extracts quality control parameters from Modis QC layers.
• v.vect.stats - included from Addons according to release plan

Major module changes

• various modules - better handle spaces in GISDBASE path
• examples added to several manual pages
• Python examples - Python ctypes usage examples in doc/python/

• db.out.ogr - also support attribute export in case of line and area vectors
• d.vect - display area labels also when centroids are not displayed
• g.extension - build addon in the mapset .tmp dir for cases when GRASS is installed by package and the end user doesn't have write permissions to GISBASE
• g.manual - also look for help/man page in the addons dir
• i.landsat.toar - bugfix for thermal band and metadata file; better management of metadata file
• ps.map - backport of RGB support and bugfixes
• r.cost - backport direction output
• r.drain - use movement direction surface from r.walk and r.cost; output vector paths
• r.grow.distance - backport of geodetic distance support
• r.walk - backport direction output
• r.watershed - fix drainage directions; sync skipping edge cells; fix bug in SFD
• v.category - add option=layers; new option to print layers only
• v.in.ogr - detect if unclean import data needs to have nodes snapped closed, and suggest a suitable distance threshold
• v.kernel - massive speed-up
• v.overlay - massive speed-up

Minor module changes

A few more minor changes; see the detailed ​ChangeLog

• d.colortable - add flag to skip showing NULL color for FP maps, ie fill the box
• d.grid - backport of dot flag and line width option
• d.grid - Fix geodesic grid overlay text label placement for longitude
• d.legend - backport of RGB support for text color and at= monitor history fidelity
• d.thematic.area - enable color gisprompt
• g.extension - Continuing improvements and robustness
• i.maxlik - update manual (improved: rejection map discussion)
• i.spectral - Bug fix for imagery groups and plotting improvements
• r.distance - bugfix #1731
• r.drain - update manual
• r.in.bin - Fix large file (>2GB) support on 32-bit systems
• r.in.gdal - report all possible projection mismatches
• r.li.setup - Fix for mouse-based masked area selection
• r.mask - Fix for floating point input maps
• r.out.arc - output is to a file not a raster
• r.out.gdal - fix output standard option
• r.random - don't segfault on long map names
• r.recode - use title option
• r.report - bugfix #970
• r.report - manual, note how to get computer-parsable output
• v.digit - don't mess with the current WIND file, use WIND_OVERRIDE instead
• v.distance - always sort results for -a
• v.external - fix for 3D data
• v.in.ogr - suggest a minimum snapping threshold if topological errors are encountered
• v.in.ogr - support whitespace in dsn and layer
• v.in.wfs - check for WFS server errors; new example
• v.net.distance - manual improved
• v.out.svg - fix point/line export
• v.reclass - bugfix #548
• v.to.rast - Avoid crash when map names are very long
• v.transform - fix memory issues; bugfix #1615
• v.what - fix segfault when querying multiple maps
• v.what.rast - fix fp precision

(see also closed tickets below)

GUI changes

(wxGUI)

• Major wxGUI update (​pictorial overview) including new GUI modules directory layout

• attribute manager - fix editing on Windows
• attribute table - Avoid error when the vector map's text data contained a pipe (|)
• Avoid file compression for live display window to lighten processor load
• check valid mapset/location name on startup page and in wizard
• composer - fix multiline labels on Windows
• composer - show help text in statusbar
• enable legend from command line
• fix launching histogram tool
• fix loading workspace on Windows (show map display)
• fix MASK status for different mapset
• Fix module startup for tasks which need an Xterm or Xmonitor
• fix writing workspace or model file (unknown encoding)
• Language choice implemented in settings
• location wizard - add help button
• manual renderer - show embedded screenshots properly (needed for some pages only)
• Many corner-case traceback errors caught and fixed (especially wxNVIZ and Cartographic Composer)
• mapcalc - fix cursor position when adding function
• map calculator - fix function insert for int()
• modeler - make random layout (avoid hidden actions), fix removing by right click
• New Python editor for wxGUI Graphical Modeller
• profile tool - fix CVS export
• psmap - show more useful message when preview fails
• Recover cleanly if 'r.in.wms' support program requirements are not met
• start screen - go back after creating new location

(see also closed tickets below)

Cartography changes

• A dozen new north arrows and symbols
• ps.map - Additional full-RGB spectrum support

Library changes

• allocate enough space for a 3D coord (#1311)
• configure script updated
• do not try to (un)compress GDAL-linked maps
• export floats and doubles with correct precision (#335)
• Fix vector network node costs
• iostream: C++ compatibility fixes
• iostream library: bugfix #1714
• new symbol - 'extra/n_arrow4' (​view)
• ogsf: support also older FFMPEG API
• Python: new raster.mapcalc_start(), allows parallelizing mapcalc calls
• Rendering: Add support for Cairo version 1.10
• strncpy doesn't always null-terminate (#1315)
• Support for a wider array of FFmpeg versions
• support for more recent FFMPEG lib versions
• Updated Autoconf build helper libraries
• Vlib/intersect.c: Vlib: fix Vect_segment_intersection

(see also closed tickets below)

Map projection changes

• fix for undetected geodetic datums
• r.in.gdal: report all possible projection mismatches
• wxGUI/location wizard: Show +proj terms when taking projection data from georeferenced data file or WKT .prj file
• wxGUI/location wizard: Datum transform selection support fixes; support for PROJ.4 version 4.8.0

Portability changes

(MS-Windows)

• Avoid path corruption blocking Addon modules from working
• Cmd.exe replaces Rxvt as the terminal for the MSys UNIX shell startup method
• Fix d.rast.edit when called from the wxGUI without specifying an optional aspect map
• Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Redistributable package available as a user selectable option in the installer
• MINGW: configuration detection fix
• minimize the dos box
• "--more--" now works as the pager
• r.in.wms: A number of fixes and safeguards added
• Shell scripts: Fix support for UNIX scripts called from within other scripts
• some encoding fixes
• Tcl/Tk GIS.m: Don't corrupt the rc file if GISDBASE contains a drive letter
• USERPROFILE is a runtime variable, not an installer variable
• Uses GRASS's bundled python.exe instead of the system's version by default to avoid mismatch in the GUI startup
• winGRASS-Installer: add option to download and install MSVCRT DLLs since we don't ship MSVCRT for legal issues
• winGRASS installer: use standard and clear name for data (\grassdata) without white space
• wxGUI/Cartographic composer: Fix preview screen and add support for direct creation of PDF output

(Mac OSX)

• 32bit/64bit compilation issue fixed
• Improved support for newer versions of OS X

(All)

• nviz: Tcl 8.6 compatibility fixes

Message translation updates

• Message string improvements
• Messages updated from latest template (consolidation fixes)
• French message translation improved
• German message translation improved
• Italian message translation improved
• Polish message translation improved
• Romanian translation started (wxGUI completed)
• Spanish message translation improved

Closed tickets

Closed bugs since the last release

#173

v.in.ogr: truncate cnames to first word

#175

v.to.rast labelcol= SegFaults and ignored

#199

d.vect.chart: render mode for lines and fills don't line up

#287

vdigit: don't force 'cat' as the key column name

#370

nviz_cmd produces images with 1 pixel size

#372

v.net.iso, v.net.path: error when using it with cost point (ncolumn)

#373

v.generalize: hermite, boyle corrupt data

#462

Tcl interp->result deprecated

#480

wx NVIZ prints debug info to terminal

#520

r.terraflow/iostream does not respect STREAM_DIR option

#545

r.cost warning on negative values

#548

grass7 - v.reclass with sqlite driver: "Cannot step: SQL logic error or missing database"

#672

v.distance -a with upload=to_attr and table= option: problems in table creation and value upload

#740

v.edit returns incorrect results on Windows

#800

r.random and r.reclass - buffer overflow on long mapset/map names

#968

v.net.salesman problem with memory allocation

#1029

r.in.bin: make LFS safe

#1044

Crash on startup directly after install (wrong copy of python dll picked up)

#1163

wx wms import tool error

#1183

i.landsat.toar: metadata file reading doesn't like TM5 from GloVis

#1191

make install gives sed error in r43810

#1200

Grass New User MacOS Snow Leopard

#1217

d.vect -a flag locks up the wxGUI on windows

#1239

wxGUI command layer broken and unusable

#1246

r.sunmask buffer overflow

#1270

wingrass: Error in Attribute Table Manager

#1275

zipped HGT Import fails on wingrass as "unzip" isn't in the package

#1292

Profile tool incorrectly processes no data values

#1294

Module dialog offers tab close button but no undo or tab open button

#1305

WXGUI raster map calculator should quote map names

#1306

WGUI doesn't strip quotes from map name when adding to layer manager after module run

#1312

DebCheck QA: Buffer access out-of-bounds

#1313

[GEM] DebCheck QA: Buffer overrun possible for long cmd-line args

#1315

DebCheck QA: Dangerous usage (strncpy doesn't always 0-terminate it)

#1316

DebCheck QA: Deallocating a deallocated pointer

#1353

./configure with ffmpeg x86_64 - problem, with workaround

#1366

When GRASS is launched it stops because the MSVCR71.DLL is not found

#1414

v.in.gshhs broken for data version 2.2.0

#1423

GRASS 6.4.1 won't compile against FFmpeg 0.8

#1428

WinGRASS + how to deliver Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package (vcredist)?

#1470

v.out.ascii with sql where option exports only centroids and not areas

#1513

Location Wizard's misleading label for XY new location creation method

#1515

nviz fails to launch from the command line

#1546

references to g.echo in devbr6

#1550

CPU dramatically increases while digitizing, no console output

#1553

osgeo4w and qgis builds: path settings to msys on wingrass find wrong 'sort'

#1554

wxGUI Cartographic Composer: preview broken on Windows

#1558

make error in gui/images no directory created because of wrong pattern matching

#1565

wxGUI: command console with no map display open causes error

#1567

Map display: saving image with scale and legend

#1582

wxgui will not start

#1585

Graphical Modeller italian translation error (Modallo->Modello)

#1590

new vector map crashing GUI in 6.4.3 svn

#1591

misc. spelling errors in documentation

#1602

Error in i.points

#1604

WXGUI regression. d.vect by default incorrectly says that it's displaying vectors from all layers

#1605

WXGUI d.vect doesn't offer all vector map layers in a dropdown list

#1606

WXGUI regression - attribute query tool reports "nothing found" when clicking on a vector object

#1612

r.mapcalc won't do anything

#1613

r.hazard.flood.py returns a ParseError

#1614

WXGUI regression - attribute table management doesn't work

#1615

Regression - v.transform fails to create a 3D map, crashes on Windows

#1616

WXGUI selecting to render a map and map selection bind to same event in layer manager

#1617

WXGUI identify tool on vector layer triggers map canvas rendering even if it's disabled

#1629

v.in.db - odbc-driver - access-database: not working

#1630

g.gui error on startup of March 24th 6.4.3 snapshot

#1633

Unable to display shapefile attribute table due to pipe characters in dbf field

#1637

r.pack and fully qualified input

#1639

wingrass: launching wxNviz fails

#1643

no way to set icon parameter through d.vect menu

#1647

GRASS 6.4.2: g.extension.py crash on Fedora 16

#1651

Map display Query Vector tool fails

#1653

Trunkated cellsize when exporting rasters to arc ascii grid (r.out.arc)

#1655

problem compiling r.terraflow with g++ 4.7.0

#1657

Loading addon v.strahler produces an error message

#1666

v.proj - Error in pj_do_transform

#1670

LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent.

#1671

grass/script/setup.py errors

#1675

Grass GIS wxPython startup error

#1676

clang: compile error in ami_stream

#1677

Bad string in wxpython gui goutput.py

#1690

r.to.vect: `dbf` proc segfaults if MAPSET/dbf/ dir is missing

#1692

calling a script within a script failing on Windows XP

#1696

Error message v.db.dropcol (Add-On Path)

#1698

Exiting GUI leaves minimized CMD window open

#1700

wingrass6.4.3svn: changing vector point symbol doesn't work

#1701

wingrass: python crashes by quit GUI after using 3D view in map display

#1706

wingrass: open attribute table fails

#1707

g.manual does not run html browser in background

#1709

New PC Win Win7 64 bit software doenst start

#1711

Plot settings in profiler now broken

#1712

i.class program fails to create a new signature file

#1714

r.terraflow does not compile

#1721

Man pages not created for addons

#1727

v.in.lines not work on Window 7 64 bit

#1729

Add 3d raster does not open GUI

#1730

GRASS 6.4.2 libgdal (GDAL 1.9.1) Disconnect

#1731

r.distance maps field needs to permit multiple maps selection

#1737

Windows users cannot access manage table controls in attribute manager

#1738

Cannot view vector table in wxGUI

#1746

Map Display Output Save Issue

#1748

Location wizard creating incorrect locations for selected projections and datums

#1756

V.Distance Command Problem

#1762

g.extension fails again on Mac

#1765

variable length array error in r.terraflow with clang

#1769

wingrass6.x: addons' manual tab not there in wxgui

#1774

color selection for d.vect.chart only affects first data column

#1777

reference to 6.4.2 in

#1784

wingrass6.4.3svn: raster3d problems

#1800

v.kernel is very slow

#1801

r3.in.ascii fails in GRASS6.4.3

#1803

GRASS 6.4.3RC1 on Win 7: grass64.bat fails due to UNIX line endings in Init.bat

#1805

Non-english Username

#1806

interrupting a command with CTRL+c closes wxGUI

#1820

WinGRASS -- Multiple Map Display Lockup?

#1827

Measure Distance - Bearing

#1834

backport r47878 (set field width for string columns in v.out.ogr) to grass6 ?

#1837

d.rast.edit error when attempting to edit a raster

#1843

grass-6.4.2 doesn't compile with tk-8.6.0

#1849

Cannot create a new GRASS Location using a custom proj4 string

#1851

Misalignment of an imported .asc raster

#1855

error using GRASS v.net

#1875

Wrong output of v.overlay.and between lines and polygon in 6.4.3

#1877

startup error reported by program

#1880

change color field to text for d.vect.chart

#1889

wxPy loc'n wiz: don't auto-launch into PERMANENT

#1890

wingrass: launch grass terminal fails

#1893

d.vect on re-opening switches to default layer

#1894

r3.mapcalc fails with "unable to fetch interface description"

#1895

wingrass installer problems: missing DLLs

#1904

wingrass6.4.3svn: vector digitizing - a sort of incomplete

#1905

Import modules allow to import into northern UTM location southern data

#1913

map calculator inserts if when int is selected

#1914

Possible infinite loop in v.in.dxf (present in 6.4.3RC2)

#1916

Map loader just shows maps of current and PERMANENT mapset

#1928

after v.transform v.to.db gives incorrect length

#1932

r.univar segfault on map with massive values

#1936

wxGUI command console: "Protocol" isn't really the right word & cleanup

#1940

wingrass - nsis - script in release mode: !define SVN_REVISION "@GRASS_VERSION_SVN@" not set

#1944

wingrass: python missing from extrabin

#1946

wingrass: demolocation includes .svn/ cruft

#1947

wingrass: %APPDATA%/GRASS6/grassrc6 and rc files

#1949

module gui doesn't release if no map display window

#1960

wingrass wx carto composer: adding north arrow causes Error and traceback

#1961

wxNVIZ: error if no raster map selected

#1967

wxPy loc'n wiz: doesn't allow ellipsoid without datum

#1968

traceback error in wxgui goutput.py on save command output

#1971

64bit LFS support for G_ftell() and PRI_OFF_T gis.h

#1974

buffer overflow in v.to.rast

#1981

export error in osgeo4w/grass.tmpl

#1987

wxGUI: traceback in map selection drop down

#2003

wxGUI carto composer: traceback on exit

#2011

WxGUI, menu does not work at all (languages using double-byte characters)

#2025

r.kappa: output file saving error on Windows

#2096

Missing libintl-8.dll from all Windows binaries

#2118

GRASS shuts down after 4th toar band

Closed wishes since the last release

#252

allow display of area labels without displaying centroids

#741

Small enhancements and bug fixes for v.out.ogr

#1119

snap parameter in v.in.ogr's manual not explained

#1469

wxgui vector query doesn't work for maps without attribute table

#1530

g.region shrink / expand parameter

#1577

r.stream.extract/r.stream.order - "calculated" mainchannel vs. "real" mainchannel

#1638

better explanation of the concept of layers in the vectorintro.html file

#1650

v.net.salesman - add sequence output

#1743

WXGUI About GRASS dialog should allow to copy version information

#1767

v.univar: add sum

#1887

improve signal to noise ratio in the build logs

#1929

make r.report CSV/spreadsheet ready

Closed tasks since the last release

#1495

r.in.wms man page needs new example: OnEarth WMS server has shut down

#1573

please donate a translation for the desktop icon comment

#1753

Distance analysis

#1830

help starting with GRASS GIS in

#1950

wingrass: replace rxvt with conhost.exe